(Bloomberg) — The US Federal Trade Commission is finally having its day in court against Meta Platforms Inc., arguing that the company must be broken up for illegally monopolizing the social media market after buying Instagram and WhatsApp more than a decade ago. The FTC’s opening salvo began Monday in Washington before Chief Judge James
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In recent weeks, several prominent private schools in Delhi have come under fire from parents for allegedly raising fees without proper approvals, sparking protests and renewed concerns about the accessibility and affordability of private education in the city. Schools such as Delhi Public School (DPS) Dwarka, Maharaja Agrasen Public School, Indraprastha International School, Birla Vidya
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Anakapalli-Atchuthapuram road widening project oustees submitting a representation to Elamanchili MLA Sundarapu Vijay Kumar regarding their demands. | Photo Credit: The Hindu As many as 1,200 farmers and businessmen, who will lose their lands as part of the 14-km road widening from Anakapalli to Atchutapuram in the district, are saying that they do not want
On 18 December 2023 — about four months before the 2024 Lok Sabha Elections — Prime Minister Narendra Modi used a real-time artificial intelligence-based tool—‘Bhashini’—during his address at Kashi Tamil Sangamam in Varanasi – his parliamentary constituency in Uttar Pradesh. Modi referred to the technology a ‘new beginning’ in simplifying his communication with the public.
Back in 2021, during the peak of the second wave of COVID-19 in Bengaluru, two transgender women, Anandi and Aisha Kousar, had to sell their gold earrings to make a living. The two transwomen eventually bought a pushcart, stove, gas and basic cooking equipment to sell tea and snacks to workers at Hudson Circle, with the
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Significantly, the Mumbai-based company said that spending on Gen AI-related projects is in addition to the outsourcing budgets, which should assuage investors’ concerns about whether the new technology was leading Fortune 500 companies to slash their tech spending. “Depending on the kind of programme, we share the productivity gains with customers,” said K. Krithivasan, chief
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Supreme Court Advocate Prasanth Bhushan, Rajya Sabha MP Imran Pratapgarhi, former MP V. Sobhanadeeswara Rao and CPI(M) State secretary V. Srinivasa Rao hold each other’s hands in a show of unity at a meeting held on communal harmony at P.B. Siddhartha College in Vijayawada on Sunday. | Photo Credit: G.N. Rao “The BJP government’s army
Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind chief Mahmood Madani on Sunday claimed that ‘BJP and its friends’ were helping ‘builders and land occupiers get lands in prime locations’ with the Waqf Act. The explosive claims come as agitations rock West Bengal’s Murshidabad, where three people have died and several police personnel were injured. The recently enacted Waqf (Amendment) Act,
There is barely anyone at the site of the peepal tree on the banks of the now-dry Niranjana river, where Siddhartha Gautama became the Buddha, after he is believed to have attained samma-sambodhi(perfect enlightenment). The tree is located at the Mahabodhi temple complex in Bodh Gaya, about 115 km south of Patna, Bihar’s capital. Within
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Professor Vivek Kumar’s latest book evaluates B.R. Ambedkar’s ideas for the building of India as a modern nation-state, and his contributions to it when the idea was still nascent. It highlights the erasure of Ambedkar’s contributions in key areas of governance, leadership, and policymaking, which were neither acknowledged nor studied by his contemporaries or Indian
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